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 CLARE 249 III. 1666. 3. Gilbert (Holles), Earl of Clare, &c., 2nd(") but only surv. s. and h., b. 24 Apr., and /^ap. 18 May 1633, at Hackney, Midx.; travelled abroad 1645-60. M.P. for Notts (as Lord Houghton), 1660. He m., 9 July 1655, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Grace, 4th da. of the Hon. William Pierrepont (2nd s. of Robert, ist Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Harris, of Tong Castle, Salop. He J. at Warwick House, Holborn, Midx., 16 Jan. 1688/9, ^"<^ '^^5 ^"''- ^^ ^^- James's Chapel, Haughton, Notts, aged SS-O Will dat. June 1686 to 28 May 1687, pr. i Aug. 1691. His widow d. late in July 1702. IV. 1689. 4. John (Holles), Earl of Clare [1624] and Baron Houghton [16 16], ist s. and h., l>. 9, MARQUESSATE. and l>ap. 16 Jan. 166 1/2, at Edwinstow, Notts; M.P. (Whig) for Notts, 1688/9 ; Gent, of the Bedchamber, I. 1694 1689-91 ; Lord Lieut, of Midx., 1689-92 ; and again to 1711. At the Coronation, 11 Apr. 1689, he carried 171 1. the Queen's sceptre, with the cross. Having by the death of his wife's father, s.p.m.s. (26 July 1691), come into the greater part of the Cavendish estates (subject to a mortgage of ;^8o,ooo, which he paid), he applied to the King for a Dukedom,('') and to be made a Knight of the Garter, but, being refused, gave up his appoint- ments. In Jan. 1693/4, however, he inherited the estates of his kinsman, Denzill (Holles), Baron Holles of Ifield, and, his fortune being now one of the largest in the Kingdom, he was, on 14 May 1694, cr. MARQUESS OF CLARE AND DUKE OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.(<») He (") His eldei br., John, d. young. ('') He was a Whig, but like his father, took little part in politics, save in oppos- ing all measures for the relief of the Rom. Catholics during the reigns of Charles II and James II. He protested against the reversal of the attainder of Viscount Stafford, who had been judicially murdered on a charge of being concerned in the pretended Popish plot. V.G. {^) He wrote to William III, 18 Apr. 1691, asking, on behalf of his father-in- law, the Duke of Newcastle, for a Dukedom for himself, and asserting that the King had promised him one. The King being annoyed at this, he wrote to apologise for having made the request, 31 Oct. 1 69 1. [Hist. MSS. Com., 13th Rep., part ii, pp. 165, 166). V.G. (^) "1694, April 26. A warrant lyes ready to passe for creating the Lord Shrewsbury, a Duke ; the Lord Carmarthen, Duie of Pontefract ; Lord Bedford, Duke of Bedford; Lord Devonshire, Duke of Newcastle; Lord Clare, Duke of Clarence" i^c. (Luttrell's Diary). This wholesale creation of Dukes took place accordingly, the titles selected being [i] Shrewsbury, by the Earl of Shrewsbury; [2] Leeds (not Pontefract), by the Marquess of Carmarthen ; [3] Bedford, by the Earl of Bedford; [4] Devonshire (not Newcastle, the title of a Dukedom but 3 years previously extinct in the Cavendish family, the new grantee being heir male of the last Duke), by the Earl of Devonshire; and [5] Newcastle (not Clarence), by the Earl of Clare, whose wife was da. and coh. of the last Duke of Newcastle. It is worthy of note that, in the short space of six years, William III created no less than nine Dukes, viz.: 32